{"id":12874,"date":"2014-11-12T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=12874"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:40:48","slug":"is-seeing-believing-images-from-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/is-seeing-believing-images-from-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Seeing Believing: Images From War"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\n
“A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began … fueled in part by state-linked propaganda and influence campaigns \u2014 particularly around who is winning the war and how many casualties there have been.”\u00a0 (March 2026)<\/div>\n
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“As these digital fabrications blur the line between reality and simulation, the necessity for Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy (CAIL) has moved from an educational luxury to a vital requirement. We are currently navigating a landscape where the ‘fog of war’ is no longer just a metaphor for confusion on the battlefield, but a literal description of an information environment choked by ‘AI slop.'”\u00a0 (March 2026)
\nDeepfakes and AI Misinformation Reshape How War Is Seen Online | Truthout<\/a><\/p>\n

AI\u2011generated Iran war images fooled international media outlets, including DW, exposing how easily manipulated images can infiltrate global newsrooms. Here is what we learned and how you can spot the fake images.<\/div>\n
Fact check: How fake images from Iran misled media outlets<\/a> (March 2026)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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January 2014
\nThe Associated Press has severed ties with a freelance photographer who it says violated its ethical standards by altering a photo he took while covering the war in Syria in 2013.
\nThe news service said Wednesday that Narciso Contreras recently told its editors that he manipulated a digital picture of a Syrian rebel fighter taken last September, using software to remove a colleague’s video camera from the lower left corner of the frame. That led AP to review all of the nearly 500 photos Contreras has filed since he began working for the news service in 2012. No other instances of alteration were uncovered, said Santiago Lyon, the news service’s vice president and director of photography. (Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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November 14 (AP via Yahoo)
\nhttp:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D94F1CIG0&show_article=1
\nThe Associated Press on Friday suspended the use of photos provided by the Defense Department after the Army distributed a digitally altered photo of the U.S. military’s first female four-star general.The image of Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is the second Army-provided photo the AP has eliminated from its service in the last two months. The AP said that adjusting photos and other imagery, even for aesthetic reasons, damages the credibility of the information distributed by the military to news organizations and the public.
\nIn the original photo, the general appears to be sitting at a desk with a credenza and bookshelf behind her. Three stars on her uniform identify her as a lieutenant general, her rank before Friday’s promotion.
\nThe altered photo, distributed by the Army and run on the AP’s photo wire Thursday, shows Dunwoody in fatigues in front of an American flag. Her rank, affixed to the front of a soldier’s tunic, is not visible.<\/p>\n

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\nAug. 6, 2006\u00a0<\/strong> Reuters on Sunday withdrew a photo of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on
\nthe suburbs of Beirut on August 5, 2006 after evidence emerged that it had been manipulated to show more smoke.
\nThe manipulated image is shown on the left. The unaltered image, shown on the right, has since run. Reuters has
\ntold the photographer, freelance Adnan Hajj, that the agency will not use any more of his pictures.<\/p>\n

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